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1939-1945:
U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets
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Colin Bell
Category:
War
Era:
1940s
Source:
Doug Sheley
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c.1930:
Policemen testing life-jackets, London
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1940s:
WWII Rubber Drive, USA
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1939-1945:
“Fool the Axis. Use prophylaxis”
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1944:
Victory, United States Marine Corps
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1939-1945:
War-time Street Posters
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1945:
Redundant Warplanes
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1945:
Soviet troops examining the fallen eagle, Berlin
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c.1946:
Northrop Flying Wing
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1942:
Barnes Wallis using marbles in his garden to test Dambuster bouncing bomb idea
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1939:
Painting a Cow
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1939-1945:
Anti-Prostitution Posters
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1942:
The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask
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1940s:
Boeing Plant 2
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1945:
Cruising Detroit teenagers celebrate the end of WWII
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1940s:
Colour photographs of occupied Paris
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1939-1945:
Dogfights
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1945:
“Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp
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1940s:
Drinking tea in the Blitz
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c. 1940s:
GIs fooling around with a bazooka
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1944:
Lifting a Tank
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1941:
Listening Post and Air Raid Lights in Pershing Square Los Angeles
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November 1943:
Ice on the HMS Belfast
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1942:
Sealed with a kiss
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c.1900s-1920s:
Lucky Swastikas
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1944:
“Theatre de la Mode”
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1945:
Winston Churchill’s Life Pod
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1940-1945:
Searchlights
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1940:
Nurse and baby in gas-masks
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1941:
Blitz Wedding
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c.1939-1945:
Batman’s Victory Garden
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1943:
“Army Day – Crocodiles Keep Out” Cannon Towel Ads
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1940:
Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel
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1945:
Marilyn Monroe Doing War Work
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1939-1945:
“Buy War Bonds” posters
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1940s:
Colour hi-res photographs of New York